ChasinStanleyMessages: 1576Registered: December 2003
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The #Oilers have acquired goalie Hayden Hawkey from @CanadiensMTL in exchange for a 5th round selection at the 2019 #NHLDraft. Hawkey went 24-12-3 with a 2.04 GAA & .919 save % as a junior with @FriarsHockey in 2017-18.

The #Oilers have acquired goalie Hayden Hawkey from @CanadiensMTL in exchange for a 5th round selection at the 2019 #NHLDraft. Hawkey went 24-12-3 with a 2.04 GAA & .919 save % as a junior with @FriarsHockey in 2017-18.

So PC is hoarding goalies now, or is Hayden the third cousin of an OBC's sister-in-law?

Wells, Skinner, Starret, Hawkey, and Rodrigue, plus Talbot, Koskinen, and Montoya (assuming we don't sign Brossiot again). I am assuming he will go back to College, so PC better have a contract in place, otherwise it's a waste of a bullet.

Let me put your mind at ease about LB becoming the next Dubnyk. LB is not an NHL goalie. He is large enough to put up okay-ish numbers in the lower leagues but that's not enough at the top level. And, if they ever get around to putting in the new equipment standards, he will be even more exposed.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.

Let me put your mind at ease about LB becoming the next Dubnyk. LB is not an NHL goalie. He is large enough to put up okay-ish numbers in the lower leagues but that's not enough at the top level. And, if they ever get around to putting in the new equipment standards, he will be even more exposed.

You might be right, but I remember thinking Doobie's career was over after he left here, he re-invented his game and become a Vezina candidate. Brosoitt could do the same with the right attitude. I'll have to trust D. Swartz knows what he's doing, with Brosoitt, as well as drafting Rodrigue, and acquiring H. Hockey.

Hayden Hawkey has been doing well. I wouldn't be too surprised to see the Oilers sign him up when his NCAA playoffs are over and send him to Bakersfield to give Starrett more help than he has been getting from Wells, Skinner, and Montoya. Providence plays Boston College this coming weekend in the NCAA tournament.